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Grant said: “Bratby was known for pushing for his paintings to be hung in galleries, so it wasn’t unknown for him to simply turn up, painting under his arm, asking if it could be put up.”

Sketches by Hockney and Freud feature in the Moore to More exhibition, while portraits of Joseph Kaye, “builder of Huddersfield”, and the town’s first mayor Charles Henry Jones hang in the Victorian room.

But despite the huge names, lesser-known local artists aren’t left out of the mix either.